The Australian housing system: a quiet revolution?Rachel Ong ViforJ, Gavin Wood
The Australian housing system is quietly undergoing a major transformation. Many young and middle-aged home owners are paying down large mortgages that leave them precariously positioned on the margins of ownership. As house prices have remained stubbornly high relative to... Read article1 June 2017Read More

Trade Diversion as Firm Adjustment to Trade Policy:Trong Hoai Nguyen, Toan Nguyen, Pham Hoang Van
This paper evaluates the impact of the 2006 European Union anti-dumping (AD) action on Vietnamese footwear in three markets: imports to the EU, footwear producers in Vietnam, and the trade diversionary adjustment of Vietnamese firms in the US market. We... Read article1 June 2017Journal ArticlesRead More

BCEC Newsletter Edition #2 May 2017Joanne Peckitt, Kelly Pohatu
Welcome to the second edition of the tri-annual BCEC Newsletter. We have had an incredibly busy start to 2017, with the Centre continuing to deliver research that seeks to improve the lives of West Australians. We commenced the year with... Read article29 May 2017Corporate PublicationsRead More

The Engine Room for Growth?Steven Bond-Smith, Alan Duncan, Daniel Kiely, Kenneth Leong, Ha Nguyen, Rachel Ong ViforJ
The 2015 Federal Budget referred to small businesses as the ‘engine room’ of the economy. Australia’s changing economic landscape means that governments are placing greater emphasis on the important role of small businesses for growth and employment. This is not... Read article26 May 2017Focus on WARead More

Re-imagining the future for desert AustraliaDigby Race, Michael Dockery, Lisa Havas, Catherine Joyce, Supriya Mathew, Bruno Spandonide
Desert regions of the world comprise about 25% of the world’s land surface and are home to 500 million people, yet are often portrayed as extreme places with resident communities marginalised from mainstream development. Australia has a relatively vast desert... Read article7 April 2017Journal ArticlesRead More